Jayson Tatum has opened up about his troublesome expertise on the Olympics, having obtained two DNPs throughout the event and simply 11 minutes of court docket time within the gold medal match towards France.
Tatum additionally mentioned it will not have an effect on his resolution about taking part in within the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.
“It was a troublesome private expertise on the court docket, however I’m not going to make any resolution off feelings,” Tatum mentioned. “Should you requested me proper now if I used to be going to play in 2028 — it’s 4 years from now and I [would have] to take time and take into consideration that. So I’m not going to make any resolution based mostly off how this expertise was or how I felt individually.”
Tatum added that a lot of folks had reached out about his restricted position.
“Lots of people textual content me and reached out and mentioned ‘Make certain this fuels you,’ which I admire. There’s lots of people that care about me,” Tatum mentioned. “I feel the robust half is sure, you need to use issues to gasoline you, however I’m nonetheless human.
“…A part of being within the second, I’ve sacrificed and put rather a lot into this sport and work actually, actually laborious. So within the second it’s robust. You’re not essentially apprehensive about fueling me for November or [whenever] the season is, however like I mentioned, it’s one thing I’m going to remove from this and study from this expertise. It’s positively difficult and humbling on the identical time.”
Crew USA coach Steve Kerr has beforehand emphasised that his resolution to restrict Tatum’s taking part in time was pushed by matchups, not efficiency.
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